Gothic

Casual portrait

Thank you for your useful suggetions and mods.
I rarely use auto (generally when something catches me by surprise and I have no time to adjust settings) but this was another experiment to find out camera possibilities. Honestly, I liked the result but I agree that it is not as clear as it should be, due to the slow shutter speed and that I didn't use a tripod this time.
I don´t use PS or CR, I edit my photos using Lightroom only.
Thank you Moira and dudler, so kind of you.
Greetings.

Vendel.

28 Jan 2015 3:34PM

El Rosedal

Thank you Britchie, so kind of you

28 Jan 2015 2:18AM

Four strings

Thank you both mudge and Tanya, your comments are very welcome
What I wanted to show here was just that, a guy playing the bass guitar, trying to focus the attention on the instrument itself more than on the guy so I used that aperture to leave him out of focus. The photo was originally going to be used in an ad and it's still on the making so I wanted to hear some opinions before.
I like the crop you both did and a more intense contrast also, helps the image to show more 'volume' and eliminates that flatness that mudge mentions.
Thank you very much for your help

Zooming

You know, there are those photographs that you take having a clear crystal idea in mind, and then... there are these ones, those that you take with no purpouse at all but experimenting. Maybe because you got new gear or just for fun, and this the case. I liked the result, it gave me an impression or vertigo and movement as this kind of effect usually suggests. Later, I used it for a facebook page I started (Humans of Montevideo, you're welcome to visit it) and made it the avatar. That was its final destination, and I had to use a squared format there, trying to locate the zoom center in the down right side.
I chose the balanced angle of the camera to break the monotony of the image and give a little bit more of movement sensation.
I actually don't think you have to take a photograph with a different purpouse than pleasing your own aesthetics principles. Of course you must if you are working for a client, that's clearly a different situation and rules, but as an artistic activity I think aesthetics comes first and you can do it just for the pleasure of watching a beatiful, harmonic image.
Thank all for your comments, very useful as they always are